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...write as a result of a particular paragraph in the article by Joseph Straus in the August 12, 1975, issue of The Harvard Crimson. In this paragraph, Mr. Straus states that I "deeply resent Leon Kirchner," and goes on to misquote me as stating. "You give me not the same players, but one class lower (than the Chamber Players) and I'll make concerts musically better than that...
Unfortunately, this particular paragraph, which contains an impression followed directly by a misquote, can only create an uncalled for misunderstanding among colleagues and can only harm the success of the overall Summer School music effort. Ch'em Liang-Sheng
...player piano has some brake on it, because Ragtime seems much longer than it is. It goes fast, but the prose is economical and touches such a torch to the imagination that when you go back to look for a ten-page scene it turns out to be a paragraph...
Ironically, it is in such moments that the author's invited comparison with Dostoyevsky weakens. Though Kosinski ends with a paragraph from The Possessed, the brilliant Polish exile reaches the depths, not the peaks, of his Russian master. At Dostoyevsky's most pathological, he still illuminated his worst sinners, sometimes with anguished faith, sometimes with a grieving moral sense. Kosinski's protagonist views sex as a corrosive, never as delight or even consolation; for Tarden, all other characters exist as so many laboratory animals awaiting his stimulus...
...your review of Journey [May 19], you say, "More than half of all hemophiliacs die before the age of five. Even with regular transfusions ... only 11% live to age 21." This derives from a paragraph in which I was describing the situation at the turn of the century. Today almost all hemophiliacs grow to adulthood and, once there, can expect to live a relatively normal life span...